 the isles of axuxal are a chain of five minor islands located off the southern coast of the amedio jungle just south of hucanuea they are home to a number of olman tribes though the tribles located on these islands tend to be more isolationist than those found on the mainland the name simply enough merely means sandy isles in common these islands were first settled over 900 years ago following the shattering of the olman nations on the mainland a number of peaceful families of xamaclan and hucanuea eschewing the war that was overrunning their culture bound together to leave it taking an oath to establish a new home elsewhere free of such carnage setting sail for the nearby axuxal islands they established homes here within the overgrown hills of their islands occasionally heading to shore to fish the peaceful life of these tribesmen has had its drawbacks as over the years they have regressed somewhat technologically however the oath taken so long ago has held extending as far as a thorough alteration of their religious beliefs their religion and culture has over the centuries almost entirely lost its violent and sacrificial aspects in most cases being reinterpreted to a more peaceful form to further hold onto this purity the people of the axuxal islands only rarely leave them though a small few on the westernmost islands do occasionally make the voyage to the distant xamaclan to trade in general they tend to leave others alone and are left alone in turn they have as of yet further managed to avoid serious attention from both the vohoun and the sea princes ; the former due to their lack of worthwhile possessions and the latter because their generally easy-going nature means that they tend to make poor slaves compared to the mainlanders 